On Monday, First Lady Michelle Obama spoke at the Democratic National Convention, which is taking place this week in Philadelphia. During her speech, she spoke movingly about the country's history, remarking, “I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves, and I watch my daughters, two beautiful, intelligent, black young women, playing with their dogs on the White House lawn.” On Tuesday, when discussing that part of Obama's speech, Fox News host Bill O'Reilly remarked that “slaves that worked there were well fed and had decent lodgings.”
O'Reilly's comment has inspired significant backlash. Today on Instagram, Questlove wrote a lengthy counterpoint to the TV host's view of slavery. “Slavery is the pebble whose ripple in the river still resonates on and on and on and on,” he wrote. “I'd like to think most of you have common sense. But there is nothing more dangerous than a man in a suit pretending to be a journalist giving revisionist history on the ugliness that was slavery. What's so fun and lighthearted about being shackled?” Read his full comments below.
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